Bad and Worse

We are less than five days away from what may prove to be the biggest turn in our recent political history as a country. In this overheated environment, which strongly resembles an Egyptian bazaar, some candidates are still looking to strike a "last minute" deal with any of the bigger parties, with a view to secure -no longer a position in Parliament- but rather a continuity of income and public image. It is without any doubt the most disturbing period in this country's life, as we are being bombarded with nonsense speeches, stupid interviews, cheap television commercials and low-intellect debates. Pretty much the image of a "musical chairs" game for adults, with a lot more at stake than just a place to sit on. And in the background of all that, the essential questions, which will decide the course of this country in the next fifty years and with it the fate of all Greeks. Is Greece going to exit the Eurozone and with it the European Union altogether, or is it going to stop paying its obligations towards its European lenders and with that run the risk of being expelled from the monetary union? Or are there actually really some mysterious and hidden forces in play that will force our lenders to their knees and make them accept all rational and irrational demands of a small nation's left centred political head that is accounting for only 2% of the Eurozone Economy? Or can we just put this one to sleep and safely assume that at the awakening of January 26, 2015, everything is going to be "business as usual"? No matter what will eventually happen, it appears that we have long passed the stage where we had to choose between a "good" and a "bad" solution. All has shifted towards the range of "bad" and "worse" and the lines in-between the two too vague and too thin. We are still a country that spends more than it earns, we are still a country with a public sector that is under-performing and over-staffed, we are still a country with no real political vision, a country with no stable economic and fiscal environment and with a low-quality political staff. We are still a country where corruption reigns, where people in power are still looting the country's wealth, and where logic has lost its meaning. We are still a country whose nation is up for a "last minute" trade "vote for personal benefit" and a widespread indifference about the person next to us. And all that are the simple reflections and features of a "individualistic" nation and not the ones of a "collective" nation. And as such, we are doomed to extinction in this modern arena of the 21st century. Maybe it is this very risk of extinction that makes us unique, after all...